The team at “Fox & Friends” isn’t buying Oprah Winfrey‘s theory that the fury over President Barack Obama’s policies and the bumpy roll-out of his healthcare law is partly rooted in racism.
They argued Thursday that the talk show icon was playing the race card when she said in an interview with the BBC last week, “I think that there’s a level of disrespect for the office that occurs and that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he’s African-American.”
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Winfrey was responding to a direct question from her interviewer about whether the president’s race riled his critics, but the Fox News morning team believe her comments crossed a line.